In X-O Manowar #7, I love how Aric reads books to understand what his good skin tells him. As in Valiant's recent series, Shanhara may be able to access relevant facts, but it takes perceptive writers to make sense of myriad facts.
If Aric's still around twenty years from now, it'll be interesting to see how future writers regard Donald Trump, and how they compare the two men. I suspect they'll think of "living like Donald Trump" rather differently.
I also enjoyed how he tells his girlfriend about his 5th Century heritage. He knows she won't believe him, but still he tries. After all, he's seen--and come to believe--many impossible things.
I enjoyed how this former warrior for his Visigoth peoples pays his workers with gold to resolve a labor union impasse. Simple and effective.
Why is this so difficult for modern, civilized man to understand?
Aric fires one unethical executive, while he keeps Orb Industries executive Ken Clarkson around with the intent of reforming him. But then, he has history with Ken, and feels gratitude to him for helping him find his place in our modern world. Also, I can't help wondering if Aric, growing up in the shadow of a Roman empire that took over native lands and gave them to their politicians and military officers, equates business corruption with a Roman way of life.
A reader back in the 1990s wrote to Valiant asking them to make a X-O Manowar movie starring "Conan The Barbarian" actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. That would have been fun, wouldn't it?
Dragon Dave
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